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• American Tanka

  http://www.americantanka.com/
  A print journal devoted exclusively to the fast-growing genre of English-language tanka. The journal features sample poems from previous issues and an on-line submission form.

• Keibooks-Announce

  http://groups.google.com/group/Keibooks-Announce
  Email list, to provide press releases and other information about poet and publisher M. Kei.

• Kokin Wakashu--Introduction

  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/kokinshu/intro.html
  This English-language intro by Prof. Lewis Cook introduces the full Japanese text of the first imperial anthology of Japanese poetry (which requires Japanese-text-handling software). It is a thorough and interesting introduction to the early history of the tanka.

• Kujaku Poetry

  http://kujakupoet.blogspot.com/
  The weblog of M. Kei, a Chesapeake poet. Personal, informative, and opinionated, with history and examples of various types of Japaniform poems, including haiku, senryu, choka, tanka, waka, kyoka, emphasizing mainly the latter three.

• Kyoka Mad Poems

  http://groups.google.com/group/kyoka
  A Google Group: Kyoka, variously translated into English as 'mad poems,' 'comic waka' and 'humorous tanka' are to tanka/waka what senryu is to haiku: the lighter side of poetry, with few rules. Frequently satirical, bawdy, and just plain silly, kyoka is for poets who want to have fun.

• Selected Tanka Bibliography

  http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/hk/hk002.htm
  An extensive list of books on the subject, compiled and commented upon by William J. Higginson.

• Tanka Online

  http://www.tankaonline.com/
  Learn to write the lyric poem of Japan known as tanka, now one of the most popular and versatile short forms of poetry in English. Webmaster, Jeanne Emrich.

• Yahoo Groups : Tanka

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tanka/
  Gateway to a tanka discussion forum moderated by Jane Reichhold.

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